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Climate Change and the Private Sector - Scaling Up Private Sector Response to Climate Change (Hardcover, New)
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Climate Change and the Private Sector - Scaling Up Private Sector Response to Climate Change (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
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Climate Change and the Private Sector explores the challenges of
transforming our energy infrastructure to become carbon neutral and
adapting to climate change in the twenty-first century. It examines
the critical role that the private sector must play in these
challenges. To transform the global energy complex to be carbon
neutral within a time frame designed to prevent irreparable damage
to the environment presents unprecedented challenges. The private
sector must deploy financial, material, and engineering resources
on a scale never before undertaken - with government providing
leadership, removing barriers and supporting industry efforts
through policies that mobilize markets to achieve environmental
objectives. A key element of supporting private sector initiative
to address climate change is policies that help form and sustain
markets that supply, finance and generate demand for the
technologies necessary to transform our energy infrastructure. The
characteristics and examples of these policies are explored in
detail. Companies that respond to these challenges both by
mitigating greenhouse gases and adapting to climate change will
enhance their own competitiveness and contribute to society in the
process. Companies that embrace the challenge to decarbonize their
manufacturing operations, whether in response to regulation (or the
threat of regulation) or market opportunities, invariably discover
ways to improve their operations in the process that could
potentially enhance their ability to produce better products, more
efficiently. The book explores examples of companies that have
redesigned their products and manufacturing processes, and in doing
so transformed themselves and reshaped their industries. As in the
case of companies mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, companies
that lead their industries in adapting their own operations to a
changing physical environment are more likely to ensure their
resilience in a changing business environment. This book provides
business, policy and academic audiences with an in-depth
exploration of the subject, and a practical guide to action.
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